Khosla Family Agrees to Buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 Billion, Pending NFL Owners’ Approval

Vinod Khosla and his wife Neeru have agreed to purchase the Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion, pending approval by NFL owners, ESPN reported. Neeru Khosla will serve as the controlling owner, according to a league memo obtained by ESPN. Their son Neal is expected to hold a significant leadership role in the ownership group.

Vinod Khosla, 71, is a venture capitalist who co-founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and launched Khosla Ventures in 2004. The firm purchased a 5% stake in OpenAI for $50 million in 2019, a holding valued at $852 billion in March, Forbes reported via ESPN. Khosla was ranked No.

10 on the Forbes 250 list of America's Greatest Innovators earlier this year. Khosla was born in India in 1955 to an army officer father. He earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi and moved to the United States in 1976.

He later received a master's degree in biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and attended Stanford business school. Neeru Khosla is an education philanthropist. The couple met in high school in India and have four children.